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Researcher · Ghent University · Belgium

Benedicte I. Deforche

Benedicte I. Deforche publishes mostly in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Transportation and Physiology, on topics such as Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, Urban Transport and Accessibility and Physical Activity and Health.

ORCID 0000-0002-1064-0525 OpenAlex
World rank
#21,831
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#59
of 67,186
Works
459
Citations
18k
Citations per work
38.8
h-index
74
i10-index 235Top 0.6% in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Benedicte I. Deforche

What does Benedicte I. Deforche research?

Benedicte I. Deforche's work is mostly in Medicine (29%), Health Professions (14%), Social Sciences (12%).

Health Sciences: 195 works · 42.5% of their workMedicine: 132 works · 28.8% of their workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 90 works · 19.5% of their workPhysiology: 43 works · 9.3% of their workHealth Professions: 63 works · 13.7% of their workGeneral Health Professions: 35 works · 7.7% of their workPhysical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation: 28 works · 6.0% of their workEverything else: 185 works · 40.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 79 works · 17.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 55 works · 12.0% of their workTransportation: 55 works · 12.0% of their workPsychology: 24 works · 5.2% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 24 works · 5.2% of their workTHEIR WORKBenedicte I.Deforche459works
Health Sciences42%Social Sciences17%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Medicine13228.8%
    2. Health Professions6313.7%
  2. Everything else18540.3%
    1. Social Sciences5512.0%
    2. Psychology245.2%
  1. 1Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health20% of their works
  2. 2Transportation12% of their works
  3. 3Physiology9% of their works
  4. 4General Health Professions8% of their works
  5. 5Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation6% of their works
  6. 6Developmental and Educational Psychology5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Benedicte I. Deforche's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Physical Activity, Public Health, Obesity, Prevalence, Childhood, Overweight, Active Travel and Built Environment.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Physical Activity5305 topics
  2. Public Health3323 topics
  3. Obesity1982 topics
  4. Prevalence1982 topics
  5. Childhood1691 topic
  6. Overweight1691 topic
  7. Active Travel1391 topic
  8. Built Environment1391 topic
  9. Exercise1021 topic
  10. Sedentary Behavior1021 topic
  11. Environmental Justice611 topic
  12. Urban Green Space611 topic
  13. Risk Factors602 topics
  14. Developmental Coordination Disorder591 topic
  15. Motor Skill Competence591 topic
  16. Driving Cessation401 topic
  17. Mobility401 topic
  18. Driver Behavior311 topic
  19. Traffic Accidents311 topic
  20. Body Image291 topic
  21. Eating Disorders291 topic

Where does Benedicte I. Deforche work?

Benedicte I. Deforche's main affiliation in the publication record is Ghent University, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Benedicte I. Deforche have?

OpenAlex counts 459 works and 17,820 citations for Benedicte I. Deforche, an h-index of 74, ranking #21,831 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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